Last year World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India defended his title by winning against Boris Gelfand of Israel. He has been world champion for about 8 years now.

Usually world championship matches are about 2 to 4 years apart, but fortunately we get to see another match after only one year this time. And it is a dream match-up. The great Anand vs. another chess prodigy and genius, Magnus Carlsen of Norway.

You should set up a dhamma wheel chess club I used to play (even took part in some junior tournaments, although wasn't very good). Would love to get back into it, but most chess clubs seem a bit more competitive/good than I am :p

"Getting a chess machine to learn from its own mistakes is an appealing idea. It has been tried in the past, but with limited success. "The problem," Campbell explains, "is that when you lose a game, the machine doesn't know what move was the wrong one. It could have been the fourth move or the next-to-last, so it doesn't know what move it has to correct, and determining the reason for the loss and generalizing it to other positions is even more difficult."

In contrast, Deep Blue has no learning ability once its values are chosen by its programmers; it carries out exactly the evaluations hardwired into it. So, in any dictionary definition, as well as in the eyes of its creators, Deep Blue has no intelligence at all."

Anand opened with e4, and Carlsen chose to respond with the Caro–Kann Defence, his first time doing so in a competitive match since 2011. Anand employed a variation, with his 14th move - a queen-side castle (0-0-0). This was followed by a knight exchange in the centre, with Carlsen then advancing his queen to d5. This enabled a trade, and, to the surprise of commentators and the audience, Anand accepted the trade, rather than pressing forward with 18.Qg4. The resulting endgame was balanced; Anand exerting pressure on Carlsen's pawn shield, by placing his rooks on the kingside - forcing a repetition of moves and a draw.

Samma wrote:Seems like draws are extremely common...just like tic-tac-toe

Especially at this level. It is quite likely that the winner of the match might be the one who wins (a game) first. After that, that player would play it very safe and defensively, playing for draws the rest of the match to win 6.5 - 5.5.